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12/02/2005

It seems that the patent situation is being taken care of

http://lwn.net/Articles/162400/

The Chinese publication People's Daily Online notes that Philips Electronics China Group is joining the Open Invention Network. "Philips Electronics China Group announced Wednesday that the company, together with Sony, IBM, Red Hat and Novell, has decided to join funds to create a joint venture-- the Open Invention Network (OIN), to purchase core patents of Linux operation system and offer them, free of charge, to any institutions or individuals. The effort is meant to aid the advancement of Linux and break the global dominance of Windows by Microsoft."